400 MB Seagate Drive Survives the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster
	A 400 MB hard-disk drive manufactured by Seagate has been recovered from the wreckage left by the Columbia space shuttle. The ship has been completely destroyed by an explosion during reentry on February 1, 2003. There was nothing left of the ship and all the seven crew members had been killed by the blast. However, a single drive fell to Earth in the debris and was recovered by the rescue teams. According to the ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Weird Objects Raining from the Heavens
	No surprise here! Out of the few couple of millions of objects floating around in Earth's orbit, at least some must come back from time to time. Just last week, a cattle farmer from Australia reported another incident in which a strange object suddenly appeared in a remote region of the northern outback. He believes that the giant ball of twisted metal, which appeared for no reason, might be a piece of space junk from a rock ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Watch Out, It's Raining Rocket Parts
	The Russian Roskosmos agency was recently sued by an inhabitant of Russia's Altai region for 42,000 US dollars, in compensation for the fact that a 3 meters piece of metal from one of its space rockets fell on his property, near the outdoor toilet. Shepherd Boris Urmatov lives in a area which is located right in the flight path of the spacecrafts being launched from the Baikonur launchpad, in Kazakhstan. Urmatov said in ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Crippled Satellite Left Little Debris
	Good news for NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. The destruction of the USA-193 spy satellite last month left a minimal field of debris in Earth's orbit, according to Rear Admiral Alan Hicks, responsible for the Pentagon's Aegis ballistic missile defense program. In the outcome of the report release, Admiral Hicks said: "We though there would be much larger pieces," however none of the debris left by the expl ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Next Meteor Shower: Ursids
	The Ursids meteors shower usually begins on the 17th of December every year, and lasts for more than a week, until 25th or 26th of December. Its name comes from the point where it seems to radiate, which is somewhere near the star Beta Ursae Minor, in the constellation of Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Dipper. It is provoked by the passing of the periodical comet 8P/Tuttle, and though in other years the meteor shower had a relatively ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 07:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Planet with Four Sunsets
	It's a common sight in numerous science fiction stories and movies: a planet with two suns (often of drastically different colors) producing double shadows, multiple sunrises and sunsets and other exotic phenomena that would appear utterly alien to us Earthlings, like Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine. Now astronomers may have discovered a beautiful quadruple star system that has not two, but four sunsets and s ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Watch Out! Astronauts Will Throw Fridges at Us from the ISS
	It's true, the three members of the crew on the International Space Station will have some nasty work to do during a spacewalk scheduled for July 23, because NASA realized it was time for a bit of cleaning, so they're getting rid of more than 730 kg (1600 pounds) of obsolete gear in and around the station. There's one problem: where to you take out trash, while in space? They can't hide it under the carpet ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unusual Blue Halo Around Distant Star Could Point at Hidden Planets
	Astronomers have just found an unusual blue halo around a distant star that looks like a glowing cosmic needle. This enlarged debris disk could point at hidden planets, since it is a well-known fact that they are leftovers from planet formation processes. The young star is called HD 15115, observed using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii may not necessarily have planets around itself but most li ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meteorite Debris Found by Accident in What Was Once a Giant Crater
	From time to time, scientists get a little bit of help from Lady Luck and when this happens, they discover something amazing. This is exactly what happened after a forest fire more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario. A group of geologists were forced to find alternative routes for their field trip, since the fire was making classical trails inaccessible and their detour turned out to be a really good idea. Along the Gunf ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meteorite Struck the International Space Station!
	This week, two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) walked out into space and climbed on the station to install deflector shields, in fact protective panels designed to shield the orbiting station from dangerous space debris and small meteorites. During this spacewalk, the two astronauts discovered a bullet-sized hole produced by the impact with a meteoroid – the name given to meteorites while in ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Shields Up! - ISS Now Has Space Shields
	This week, two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) walked out into space and climbed on the station to install deflector shields, in fact protective panels designed to shield the orbiting station from dangerous space debris and small meteorites. It took the spacewalkers five and a half hours to complete this mission, and commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Oleg Kotov, the two astronauts that di ... [read more >>]
	31 May 2007, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia